Condiment-holder.



PATENTED JUNE 26, 1906 SGHNOOR.

CONDIMENT HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED DB0. 29. 1905.

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CONDIMENT-HOLDER.

specification 'of Letters Patent.

Patented June 26, 1906.

Application filed December 29, 1905. Serial No. 293.797.

` To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER J. ADOLP ScnNooR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Holstein, in the county of Ida and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Condiment-Holder, of which the following is a specification. 4

This invention relates to. condiment-holders, and has for an object to provide a holder embodying new and improved features of convenience, simplicity, and eficienc A further object is to provide a ho der arranged to hold two materials in a granular form and embodying improved means whereby either separately or both mixed may be shaken from the holder.

With these and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, shown in the accompanying drawings, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the drawings, Fi re 1 is a view of the improved condiment-blder in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken on line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional view taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the sliding perforate cover.

In its preferred embodiment the improved condiment-holder forming the subject-matter of this application comprises a body or receptacle 10 of any approved size and form and divided into two compartments 11 and 12 by the partition 13. The partition 13 stops short of the top, forming a passage or chamber- 14 common to the two compartments and open at the top, as at 15, the opening being closed by a perforate cover 16 removable in any approved manner, as by sliding, as indicated.

The u per edge of the partition is provided With a ongitudinal concavity 17, in .which is mounted a rock-bar 18, carrying an integral wing or deflector plate 19. When in a vertical position the deiiector contacts with a cross-bar 20, whereby the compartments remain separated, but both communicate with the common chamber and discharge material from both com artments simultaneously. The passage om either compartment to the common chamber may be closed by inclining the deiiector to either side to contact with the shoulders 21 and 22, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 3.

The rock-b ar and deflector are carried upon a squared shaft 23, extending longitudinally therethrough and terminatin in trunnions 24 and 25, extendin throug the walls of and without the hol er and the latter pro'- vided with a crank or lever 26. The lever is of resilient material and extends in a plane with the deflector 19 and engages a se ment 27, provided with an engaging notc 28, positioned to hold the deflector in a vertical position, and with notches 29 and 30, positioned to hold the deflector in contact, respectively, with shoulders 21 and 22. lever is provided with any approved means for operating, as the knob or button 31, and a ilange or other operating means 32 is provided upon the perforate cover 16.

The exterior of the shaker will be provided with characters to designate the material which may be shaken from the holder with the lever at the designated points. It being supposed that salt is contained in compartment 11 and pepper in compartment 12, then the word Salt would be placed adjacent notch 30 and Pepper" adjacent the notch 29 and Mix or some equivalent word adjacent the notch 28. It will be obvious that by movin the lever to enga e either of the notches o? so moved as to permit the shaking from the holder of the designated condiment or the two together when the lever is at Mix For clearness of illustration space has been shown about the wing or deector 19; but it will be understood that the dei'lector will contact with the holder in such manner as to prevent the passage of the separated materials from one compartment to the other.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A condiment-holder comprising a casing havin a top converging toward its center provi ed with a central discharge-opening, opposite Walls of the opening being concaved to form shoulders, a artition dis osed within the casing and alinjng with t e longitudinal center of the opening but terminating short thereof, said partition forming oppositely-,disposed compartments communicat- The the segment the eiiector will be IOC ing with the opening and said partition provided with a longitudinallygrooved free edge, :i cross-ber centrally dis osed within und extending,` transversely of t 1e outer end ol' the opening, a, deilector-plate havino' a tubular extension ut one ed e rotiitarhly mounted within the groove in t 1e partition, means for swinging said defleotor avainst either of the shoulders, and a removable ep- I ertured slide mounted upon the top of the 1o casing and across the opening.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

PETER J. ADOLP SCHNOOR.

Witnesses:

' ALBERT G. MERKLEY,

CHAs. KAs'rNER. 

